50 years with ol' slabsides: the modern transformation of our favorite pistol--the Colt 1911--just happens to roughly coincide with the debut of GUNS. Fancy that.
Guns Magazine › Vol. 51 Nbr. 8, August 2005
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50 years with ol' slabsides: the modern transformation of our favorite pistol--the Colt 1911--just happens to roughly coincide with the debut of GUNS. Fancy that.
Some of you might wonder why we're talking about the 1911 as we commemorate the 50th year of GUNS. Actually, it is simple. The 1911 we know today is very much the product of the last half-century. To be sure, there were some improvements before World War II--the original National Match is a great example--but the growth of NRA Bull's-eye Pistol competition in the post-war years is what really drove things and is responsible for the things done today by both custom and production makers to make the 1911 shoot! In my vocabulary "to shoot" has nothing to do with going bang. It involves putting bullets into groups rather than patterns. One event in particular, The National Trophy Match, required the use of the "service pistol" and "service ammunition." Of course the service pistol was the 1911 or 1911A1.
In the 1950s, when my odyssey began, you could buy a brand new Colt Government Model and the odds were very good that it would need a little--sometimes a lot--of work just to make it function reliably. To achieve any real accuracy required an accurac...See the full content of this document
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